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Latest Animal and Pet News - Laurie Kay Olson

I write on the latest animal news and most interesting animal stories. I come to PetsLady with a background in print journalism for the Colorado Daily newspaper. Some of my favorite assignments there included theraputic horseback riding and Canine Companions for Independence, so this is a natural fit. Living in Boulder, Colorado, where wildlife abounds, I am frequently dealing with deer, fox, skunks, squirrels, rabbits, snakes, birds, and mice. My cat, Naomi, helps round out the menagerie around me.

What the Monterey Bay Aquarium achieved recently may not have been impossible, but it certainly was difficult. They have managed to coax their weedy seadragons to mate and produce a brood of over 80 tiny offspring.

An Arkansas sheriff's deputy got more than he was counting on when responding to a call about a bull running loose in Faulkner County. When he arrived on the scene he found a man attempting to guide the animal across a yard.

A team of researchers and conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the National Research Council of Argentina fitted a camera to the back of an imperial cormorant to get a glimpse of how the marine bird dives to the bottom of th

The newest celebrities in the OC tend to be a bit on the unattractive side, but they are drawing big crowds at the Orange County Fair in California. Cameras were out and children were straining to witness the first camel milking demonstration.

Scientists in Australia have discovered that female parrot finches are capable of determining the gender of their offspring to adjust to environmental conditions at the time. It is a surprising survival strategy that also makes a lot of sense.

As many as 100 peacocks have died in the desert in Pakistan and officials are investigating the cause. The wild peacocks were already weakened because of the delayed arrival of the annual monsoon rains which created a loss of safe drinking water.

Trackers in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park comb the forests every day
to find and destroy the snare traps set by poachers. One day earlier
this month a tracker, John Ndayambaje, was working in an area near the

People who want to be able to take their pets wherever they go are turning to the purchase of fake service dog vests. Disability rights groups are claiming fraud is being perpetrated by the companies who sell the vests to just anybody.

As hard as it is for animal lovers to believe, there are serious animal-hating crazy people out there who will actually aim at an animal in the road when they are driving. A recent study has shown that six percent of drivers will go for the kill.

One in five dogs will develop some type of osteoarthritis in their
lifetime. Large breed dogs are affected more than smaller breeds. The
heavier the dog is, the more likely it is to experience symptoms. It is a problem

Seven-year-old Lorcan Dillon of Manchester, England, suffers from selective mutism, a psychiatric disorder that makes him unable to speak in certain situations, including school, and expressing his feelings toward his family.

When fishermen working off the south coast of England, in a strait known as the Solent, between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, brought in their nets they found that one of their oysters wasn't quite what they were fishing for.